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    Women constitute half the world's population but receive disproportionately less income and own far fewer assets. In India specifically, women produce 50% of food but earn only 10% of income and own just 10% of wealth. While laws have aimed to promote gender equality and women's rights, social attitudes have been slow to change and women remain economically disadvantaged. The constitution guarantees formal equality through prohibitions like child marriage, but implementing social and economic development programs is also needed to meaningfully improve women's status and quality of life.

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    Women constitute half the world's population but receive disproportionately less income and own far fewer assets. In India specifically, women produce 50% of food but earn only 10% of income and own just 10% of wealth. While laws have aimed to promote gender equality and women's rights, social attitudes have been slow to change and women remain economically disadvantaged. The constitution guarantees formal equality through prohibitions like child marriage, but implementing social and economic development programs is also needed to meaningfully improve women's status and quality of life.

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    REVIEW OF LITERATURE

    SOCIAL WELFARE

    Introduction
    Various socio-economic indices such as representation in workforce, type of work in which
    women are engaged, literacy, health, mortality, dependency upon agriculture for
    employment, etc. revealed that woman and children are the most disadvantaged category of
    population in terms of income and family circumstances requiring support and guidance.
    United Nations Commission on Status of Women says:
    "Women who constitute half of the world's population by virtue of an accident of birth,
    perform two thirds of world's work, receive one tenth of its income and own less than one
    hundredth of its property. In India, while they produce 50 percent of the food commodities
    consumed by the country, they earn only 10 percent of the income and own 10 percent of the
    property of wealth of the country. Merely providing certain rights and protection from social
    inequalities in status books does not solve the issue of their socio-economic status. Measures
    to improve the status of women and their quality of life must be wedded to various economic
    development programmes".
    The Constitution guarantees formal equality and radical social reforms, forbidding child
    marriage (below the age of 18 for a girl), legalizing remarriage of widows and providing
    equal share to women in the joint family property under the Inheritance Act which introduced
    important innovations in the Indian social structure affecting women's status and role. But the
    mere enactment of laws does not change attitudes, and ironically, these advances in social
    legislation have engendered in some measure an attitude of complacency whilst the views of
    society towards the position of women have not changed much over the years. 6,21,10,839
    -6 Yrs))
    6le Literacy (%)
    82.3
    Decadal Growth Rate (%)
    11.19
    Demographic Profile - 2001- Tamil Nadu
    Population 6,21,10,839 Area in Sq Kms 1,30,058
    Density 478 Sex Ratio 986
    Juvenile Sex Ratio 939
    (0-6 Years) Total Literacy (%) 73.55
    Male Literacy (%) 82.3 Female Literacy (%) 64.6
    Decadal Growth rate (%) 11.19

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